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Johnston Heights Secondary INSIDELITERACY: Punjabi creative writing contest connects B.C. teens to their culture through storytelling

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VAPING: It’s on the rise, so the Surrey School District has compiled an array of online resources for parents, teachers and teens

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NEW SCHOOLS: Ground breaks for two new schools in Surrey – one in Grandview Heights and another in the Douglas area

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SKILLS CANADA: Four Surrey students are heading to Halifax for nationals after taking first place in the B.C. Skills competition in Abbotsford

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SCIENCE: A project from two students about long parking wait times earned silver at a national competition

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AWARDS: For a third time, the Surrey School District has been named one of Canada’s Greenest Employers

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Johnston Heights Secondary was abuzz with excitement – and plenty of action – as more than

250 secondary students and about 150 volunteers hit the playing fields, gymnasiums, theatre, dance studio, weight room and tennis courts for the 15th-annual Athletes in Motion (AIM) Games.

Hosted by Johnston Heights Sec-ondary, this year’s event attracted par-ticipants of varying abilities from all 20 Surrey secondary schools for a day of collaborative sport and recreation.

The event, founded by Johnston Heights phys-ed teacher and Adapted Physical Activity program co-ordi-nator Deb Murin, invites youth to show off their abilities and hone their skills, overcome barriers, set goals and build strengths, while simultaneously challenging the perspectives, misun-derstandings and myths about people with disabilities.

Inside Johnston Heights, students took part in martial arts, weight train-ing, dance, various wheelchair sports, boccia and yoga. Outside, games of soccer, hockey, basketball and softball happened.

“It is intended to create a safe space for all youth to explore their talents, play and find commonalities,” says Murin, the sole co-ordinator of the AIM Games, with the assistance of Shannon Milross, a youth care worker at Salish Secondary.

“I move it to a different host school every year in order for students all around our district to be host of the games, which celebrate abilities through play, as well as highlight the tremendously talented instructors from local sport organizations.”

As happens each year, the day in-cluded an athlete procession, opening and closing ceremonies, guest speaker and presentation of medals.

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Athletes in Motion Gamescelebrates student strengths and challenges perceptions of people with disabilities

Groups involvedThe AIM games are instrumental in

exposing students and their families to community organizations that provide programming for youth with disabilities. The organizations involved with this year’s AIM Games included:

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Georgia Menzies from L.A. Matheson Secondary plays hockey during the 15th-annual AIM Games at Johnston Heights Secondary school.

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Yuto Miyazaki from Earl Marriott Secondary plays soccer during AIM Games action.

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Time is running out for students from Surrey and across B.C. to enter their

Punjabi creative writing in the Dhahan Prize contest for a chance to win cash and have their work published.

The contest is open to all B.C. students who are taking Punjabi lan-guage classes in Grade 11 or 12. Their stories, between 800 and 1,000 words, must be submit-ted in both Punjabi and English.

As in past years, the eight win-ners not only receive $500, but will have their work included in a print-ed anthology as well. The deadline to submit work is May 31.

“We have kids who are published authors. Happiness is when your students’ work is published,” said co-organizer and L.A. Matheson Secondary teacher Gurpreet Bains, noting she uses the anthologies, titled “Lofty Heights,” as teaching

resources in her classroom.Grade 11 Matheson student Jas-

meen Kaur Dhaliwal was excited to submit her writing and grateful

her Punjabi class at school taught her more about Ca-nadian-Punjabi history and literature.

“I think we are very lucky that we got a chance to learn about our mother tongue,” Dhaliwal said.

Dhahan Prize founder Barj Dhahan noted the contest is not restricted to students with Punjabi backgrounds – many partic-

ipants have been from non-Punjabi backgrounds who are taking Pun-jabi at school.

“It’s not only about inspiring those of you who come from Pun-jabi families to learn to write and express yourselves in your mother tongue,” said Dhahan, “but also in English and maybe by extension, other languages as well.”

Principal Peter Johnston lauded the contest for allowing South

Asian students to share their ex-perience and understanding both within the South Asian and with the community at large.

“That is powerful. That’s power-ful for our community here at L.A. Matheson, it’s powerful for the South Asian community abroad.”

The youth Punjabi writing con-test was established in 2017 as a way to help recognize the richness of Punjabi history and encourage

youth to connect to and share their culture through storytelling.

Teacher Annie Ohana said it’s key that students feel empowered, as they are through the writing contest.

“We are living in a world where I know of students in the United States that are fighting tooth and nail to see themselves in their cur-riculum, where doors are shut in their face, where departments of

education deny them access to their mother tongues, deny them access to their cultures.”

She said only good comes from empowering one another.

“It makes us stronger as a soci-ety; it makes us better as a society.”

For more information about the eligibility requirements and an ap-plication form, visit dhahanprize.com/events/youth.


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Dhahan Prize contest invites B.C. teens to connect to their culture through storytelling

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At an event held at L.A. Matheson Secondary, student Jasmeen Kaur Dhaliwal said she was excited to submit her writing to the Dhahan contest and grateful her Punjabi class at school taught her more about Canadian-Punjabi culture and history.

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Construction has begun on two new Surrey schools – Grandview Heights Secondary and a Doug-las-area elementary school – and will provide more than 2,100 new student spaces by 2021.

“We want every student to get the best educational experience possible, and that means learning in positive, engaging and inspiring classrooms,” said Rob Fleming, Minister of Education. “These new schools are a great example of everyone working together to improve education for Surrey stu-dents and to reduce portables in this community.”

The provincial government has announced an additional $32.6 million for the Grandview Heights Secondary school, for a total bud-get of up to $93.2 million. The school will have capacity for 1,500 students. The new Douglas-area el-ementary school, near Peace Arch border crossing, has a total budget

of up to $33.1 million and will have capacity for 605 students.

To continue to meet the demand for future classrooms in Surrey and to reduce portables at nearby schools, the province is providing an additional $3.6 million for the Surrey School District. These funds will allow the district to com-plete the purchase of a site needed for a future school in the Sunny-side Heights neighbourhood. The district will provide an additional $2.4 million in land capital.

In total, government is provid-ing $31.2 million, along with $3.8 million in district land capital, for the property located at the corner of 20th Avenue and 165A Street in Surrey. Sunnyside Heights is expected to add more than 5,000 homes in the next 10 years. With this property now secured, the province will “work with the Sur-rey School District on the best path forward” for a new, approximately

630-seat elementary school.“It’s wonderful to see construc-

tion getting underway for Grand-view Heights Secondary as this school is so badly needed,” said Laurie Larsen, Surrey Board of Education chair. “To have con-

struction also beginning on a new elementary school in the Douglas area just three months after our groundbreaking for the Edgewood Drive-area elementary school is great news for South Surrey and a statement about the progress and

priority for school construction in our district.”

Since September 2017, the prov-ince has announced $226.7 million for new schools, expansions, up-grades and land purchases in the City of Surrey.

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Minister of Education Rob Fleming was in South Surrey on May 17 to help break ground on the new Grandview Heights Secondary, and symbolically break ground on a new elementary school for the Douglas area. Fleming also announced funding to complete the land assembly for a new elementary in the Sunnyside neighbourhood.

Construction launched for two Surrey schools


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Four Surrey students will compete in the 2019 Skills Canada National Competition in Nova Scotia next week, after taking first place at provincials.

Dozens of Surrey students were among 600 youth from across the province who took their talent to the BC Skills competi-tion in Abbotsford in mid-April, competing in an array of skilled trade and technology fields, including everything from animation to welding.

Gold medal winners from Surrey Schools were:

z Junniel Abeto & Vince Pascual (Fraser Heights Secondary) – 2D animation

z Isaac Carswell (Sullivan Heights Second-ary) – baking

z Reilly Ouwerling (Elgin Park Secondary) – car painting

The first-place winners now advance to the national skills competition in Halifax May 28-29.

Other Surrey students who won medals at the provincial level included:

z Michael Stariha (Fraser Heights Second-ary) – silver in cabinet making

z Chloe Flores-Pettipas (Clayton Heights Secondary) – culinary arts

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z Kelcy Wang (Earl Marriott Secondary) – bronze in website development


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What’s the biggest difference between school classrooms today and classrooms in the past? Digital technology? Desks that aren’t lined up in rows?

Probably the biggest change in recent decades is inclusion.

Students with special needs share the space with their neighbours and their siblings. Inclusion means teaching every student in their neighbourhood school alongside their peers.

Inclusion means meeting every student’s needs. Inclusion means finding every student’s strengths. Inclusion means a posi-tive environment for all students.

Sometimes these goals are hard to reach; teams of support staff and teachers are working with our kids, assisting them on the way.

Some needs are easier to assess,

but many are not obvious immedi-ately, which is why the school must do assessments to determine what the students need.

If you think your child has a learning disorder, or needs some kind of assistance, talk to your teacher about getting assessments done.

At a recent conference, a young man with autism was asked to de-scribe what autism meant and his best answer was “my brain works

different.” Different can be good. The goal

we all need to work toward is to make all these “different” people included in their school and com-munity.

We are recognizing that there is strength in diversity. Here’s to find-ing every child’s strengths.

Dean McGee is president and chair of Surrey DPAC. You can email him at [email protected]

Inclusion is everyone’s goal

The Surrey School District continues to grow, with about 1,060 more school-aged, full-time equivalent students anticipated for the next school year.

To meet that growth, the Surrey Board of Education has approved hiring 78 more teachers (includ-ing 12 teachers funded by the Classroom Enhancement Fund), 107 educational assistants, 19 support staff, seven professional staff and five school administra-tors for 2019-2020.

Despite ongoing growth and no funding to offset inflation, and other funding challenges over the years, the board continues to

manage expenditures efficiently, relative to the provincial average.

The budget projects a total of 74,749 FTE equivalent students in 2019-20, including school-aged, adult and distributed (on-line) learning students.

The preliminary 2019-2020 op-erating budget is $713.7 million out of a total budget including special purpose and other funds of $836 million. The final school district operating grant will be based on the Sept. 30, 2019 enrol-ment count and any adjustments to the annual budget will be made after that date.


BUDGET: Meeting the growth

What is DPAC and what does it do?The Surrey District Parent Advi-

sory Council (DPAC) is a registered non-profit society that is the legislated representation of parents at the school district level.

Most general meetings are held monthly on the 4th Wednesday (ex-cept March) from 7-9 p.m. (registration at 6:45 p.m.) at the District Education Centre, 14033 92 Ave. For more infor-mation, email [email protected]

2018-19 DPAC boardActing President/Chair – Dean

McGee ([email protected])Vice-president/vice-chair – Jyotika

Jasuja ([email protected])Secretary – Amanda Grimson (secre-

[email protected])Treasurer – Anissa Rimer (treasurer@

surreydpac.ca)Directors: Rina Diaz, Jagwinder

Mahal, Robert Ran, Tre Verbeek.

Dean McGee

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Awards

The Surrey School District has received national and provincial recognition for its environmental efforts and exceptional workplaces, re-spectively.

For the third time, the dis-trict has been selected one of Canada’s Greenest Employ-ers – an acknowledgment of ongoing environmental leadership and commitment to sustainable practices.

The Canada-wide compe-tition (through Mediacorp Canada Inc.) evaluates employers on things such as unique environmental pro-grams offered and the extent to which environmental foot-prints have been reduced.

According to canadas-top100.com/environmental, the “special designation rec-ognizes the employers that lead the nation in creating a culture of environmental awareness in their organiza-tions.”

Programs in Surrey like the EKOLogy outdoor ed-ucation program at East Kensington Elementary were acknowledged, as were the many initiatives that encour-age students and staff to get involved, such as the Surrey Youth Sustainability Net-work, Green Teachers Net-work and the annual Energy Conservation Cup.

“This recognition is one we are particularly proud of,” said Surrey Board of Educa-tion chair Laurie Larsen.

“Environmental efforts

take place daily on numerous fronts and at all levels in our vast school district, from our senior district staff to our youngest of students and fu-ture leaders.”

The district was also named one of B.C.’s Top Employers for 2019 by Me-diacorp Canada Inc., which recognizes employers “that lead their industries in of-fering exceptional places to work.”

Winners in the competition are selected based on criteria including the work atmo-sphere, training and skills development and health, fi-nancial and family benefits.

Again, Larsen was thrilled about Surrey Schools’ inclu-sion among the province’s top employers.

“We respect and value our employees,” she said, “and always strive to provide supportive, welcoming and inspiring workplaces where everyone – educators, clerks, tradespeople, professionals or custodians – can take pride in what they do to support children and student learning.”


Four science projects and their five student creators from the Surrey School District travelled across the country to compete against other youth at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in New Brunswick, which took place from May 15 to 17.

One project created by Surrey stu-dents won silver in the junior catego-ry at the national competition.

That was Mikko Lorico and Deven Marrero’s project, “AutoParkade:

Could this solve long parking wait times?” The two Grade 8 students are from the Surrey Academy of Innova-tive Learning (SAIL).

Mankeerat Singh Sidhu, who is cross-enrolled in SAIL and Khalsa School, took home a bronze medal at the national competition for a project called “A Hand For Hope.”

About 500 young scientists attend-ed, competing for nearly $1 million in awards, prizes and scholarships at the Canada-Wide Science Fair.

The Surrey students advanced to nationals after winning gold at the 13th-annual South Fraser Regional Science Fair that took place at Kwan-tlen Polytechnic University’s Surrey

campus in April.Two other Surrey students also

competed at the national fair after winning gold at regionals: Mohamed Fawzan Hussain, (Grade 11, Fraser Heights Secondary, for “BCI-Neu-rokey - Development and Testing of a Non-Invasive Brain Computer Interface System”) and Anson Exner (Grade 10, SAIL, for “The Intra-Ur-ban Grow Box”).

Hussain was also among the win-ners last year, when he was in Grade 10, and attended to the national fair in Ottawa for his project that investi-gated using EEGs to analyze student attention during math assessment.


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Eight Surrey elementary and secondary students reached the podium at the 2019 Concours d’art oratoire. The 36th-annual French public speaking compe-tition attracted 10,000 students from across B.C. Of those, 209 made it to the provincial finals, which were held May 4 at SFU Surrey. Seventeen of the finalists were from Surrey Schools.

Winning gold medals were two Surrey secondary students: Ben Tyler, a Grade 9 immersion stu-dent at École Earl Marriott Sec-ondary, for his speech “Les Avan-tages des OGMs alimentaires”; and Kaitlyn Lu, a Grade 11/12 core French student at Fleetwood Park Secondary, who won for “L’importance du vote.” Tyler also won the RésoSanté prize for health subject.

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z Silver - Liam Quan - École Martha Currie Elementary, Grade 6 early immersion, “La Dependance”

z Silver - Kiana Verrier - École

Earl Marriott Secondary, Grade 9 Francophone, “Les écoles rés-identielles”

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z Bronze - Kashish Bal - École Frost Road Elementary, Grade 6/7 intensive French, “Ma vie”

z Bronze - Sarah Hwang - École K.B. Woodward Elementary, Grade 7 late immersion, “Le the aux perles”

z Bronze - Simone Saini - École Kwantlen Park, Grade 10 immer-sion, “Pourquoi devrait-il être nécessaire de vaccine les enfants?”

Other provincial finalists from Surrey were:

z Amélie Hall - École Peace Arch Elementary, Grade 6 Fran-cophone, “Être enfant unique”

z Elisha Zeng - École K. B. Woodward Elementary, Grade 6 Late Immersion, “Le Japon”

z Louis Wight - École Peace Arch Elementary, Grade 7 Fran-cophone, “Le meilleur astrophys-icien”

z Felix Bubbar - École Laronde Elementary, Grade 7 Immersion, “9-1-1”

z Kelly-Anne Gardner - École Salish Secondary, Grade 8 Immersion, “L’exploration de l’océan”

z Simarpreet Singh - Frank Hurt Secondary, Grade 10 Core French, “Le rêve d’un roi”

z Maggie Huang - Elgin Park Secondary, Grade 11 Core French, “Mes parents”

z Shana Nursoo - École Salish Secondary, Grade 11 Franco-phone, “Le monde modern”

z Ryan Zrymiak - École Salish Secondary, Grade 11 Immersion, “La collusion américaine


Students medal at French-speaking contestConcours d’art oratoire

Fleetwood Park Secondary’s Kaitlyn Lu and Earl Marriott Secondary’s Ben Tyler both took first place at the 2019 Concours d’art oratoire.

Surrey’s students are being encour-aged to build better robots.

Two Surrey schools are among schools to benefit from a $250,000 grant from the provincial government to First Robotics BC. Students from L.A. Matheson Secondary and North Surrey Secondary were among five B.C. schools to participate in the 2019 First Championship in Houston, Texas last month. Each team received $5,000 toward its competition fees.

“Through our robotics program, youth earn important life skills,” said Ian Koscielski, regional director of First Robotics BC. “A sense of pur-pose, a sense of belonging and a sense of achievement. Developing innova-tive and highly technical skills and attitudes is essential to our partici-pants’ future success, as well as B.C.’s science and technology advancement and economic growth potential.”

Premier John Horgan said the grant is intended to help students hone their skills in the what the government calls the STEM fields of science, technolo-gy, engineering and mathematics.

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North Surrey Skating Club50 Years of Club SkatingCANSKATE • 3 years of age to adult

FIGURE SKATING • Test & Competitive StreamsCertified Skate Canada Coaches

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SURREY 604.591.11617050 King George Blvd.

BURNABY 604.421.55252849 North Road

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ALSO AVAILABLE - PRIVATE LESSONSin Piano, Voice & Guitar

Carillon Preschool Program (ages 2-4)• Introduction to music through singing and activities• 1/2 hour lesson each week• 15 week semester • Parent participationCarillon Red Program (ages 4-5)• Learn to play piano through the development of a variety of skills including eartraining, note reading, rhythm, technique, singing and composition

• 3 year program• 1 hour lesson each week • Parent participationCarillon Yellow Program (ages 6-7)• Skill development similar to Red Program, including learning repertoirethrough ear development and sight reading

• 2 year program• 1 hour lesson each week • Parent participationCarillon Blue Program (ages 8-10)• Skill development in ear training, note reading, rhythm, repertoire, technique,theory, singing, chording, composition, improvisation and transposition

• Multi-year program • Parent participation optionalCarillon Voci Program (ages 7+)• Learn the foundations of singing and music in a choir setting• Sing in ensembles and individually• Sing great Choral Music, Pop Songs as well as Music Theatre• 1 1/2 hour lesson each week

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music training can achieve

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